After graduating, she spent time researching sexual violence along the Central American migration route with the Berkeley Law Human Rights Center.
Nitisha grew up in the Bay Area, where she studied business and political science at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, Bree hopes to work in civil legal aid in her hometown of San Francisco. Her 2L summer, she worked as a law clerk with the Civil Rights and Community Lawyering of the Oakland City Attorney’s Office. She spent her 1L summer at the Campaign Legal Center in D.C.-an impact litigation non-profit focused on voting rights and democracy law. At SLS, Bree has been involved in SLA, WSL, and CRCL, and was a clinical student with the Community Law Clinic. In 2017, she moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where she worked as a contractor for the Canadian Embassy coordinating a civil society grant program and volunteered for the International Refugee Assistance Project doing Arabic-language intake interviews with Syrian and Iraqi refugees seeking resettlement. and then relocated to Ohio to join the Clinton campaign as a field organizer in 2016. She worked in human rights advocacy at the Open Society Foundations in D.C. Before law school, Bree spent three years dabbling in different social justice and public interest pursuits.
In his free time, he loves to travel with his partner, Josh, read, and hang out with his Goldendoodle, Rey.īree Baccaglini grew up in San Francisco, CA, and graduated from Middlebury College in 2015 with a BA in Political Science and Arabic. He spent his 2L summer at the Office of the Tribal Attorney for the Yurok Tribe in Klamath, California. Tanner intends to pursue a career in Federal Indian Law and spent his 1L summer at Kanji & Katzen, a firm in Seattle, Washington, that represents tribes across the country. At SLS, Tanner has been the Co-President of the Native American Law Students Association, a co-founder and moderator for Critical Conversations for 1Ls, an active member of OutLaw, and involved in various groups pushing for more progressive and public-interest-oriented activities at the law school. After graduation, Tanner returned to Oklahoma as aTeach for America corps member, spending two years as a middle school science teacher in Oklahoma City. In 2016, he graduated from Yale University, where he majored in History and received a certificate in Education Studies. Tanner grew up in Union City, Oklahoma, a small rural town outside of Oklahoma City. She enjoys baking, watching reality television, and being outside.
Sophie spent her 1L summer at Nashville Defenders and will spend her 2L summer at Stanford working on her PhD in sociology. Sophie also helps lead a graduate student wide program called the Stanford Prison Education Project (SPEP). She has served on the boards of the Stanford Prisoner Advocacy and Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Criminal Law Society. Before law school, she worked an investigator at Brooklyn Defender Services. Sophie grew up in Maryland and attended college at Cornell University where she received her B.S.